Atlantic Automobilism : : Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940 / / Gijs Mom.
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobile...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in Mobility ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (768 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION Explaining the Car: Prolegomena for a History of North-Atlantic Automobilism
- PART I Emergence (1895–1918)
- CHAPTER 1 Racing, Touring, Tinkering: Constructing the Adventure Machine (1895–1914/1917)
- CHAPTER 2 How it Feels to be Run Over: The Grammar of Early Automobile Adventure
- CHAPTER 3 Driving on Aggression: The First World War and the Systems Approach to the Car
- PART II Persistence (1918–1940)
- CHAPTER 4 “Why Apologize for Pleasure?” Consuming the Car in Boom and Bust
- CHAPTER 5 Translation and Transition: Readjusting the Technology and Culture of Middle-Class Family Adventures
- CHAPTER 6 Redefining Adventure: Domesticated Violence and the Coldness of Distance
- CHAPTER 7 Swarms Into Flows: The Contested Emergence of the Automobile System
- CONCLUSION Transcendence and the Automotive Production of Mobility
- Bibliography
- Index